Chapter 5. Constructing a Temporary System

5.24. Grep-2.10

5.24.1. Installation of Grep

Prepare Grep for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools \
--disable-perl-regexp

The meaning of the configure switches:

--disable-perl-regexp

This ensures that the grep program does not get
linked against a Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE)
library that may be present on the host but will not be
available once we enter the chroot environment.

Compile the package:

make

Compilation is now complete. As discussed earlier, running the test
suite is not mandatory for the temporary tools here in this
chapter. To run the Grep test suite anyway, issue the following
command: